𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐄 -

❝ ᴅᴀᴍɴ, ꜱʜᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇꜱ ʀᴇᴠᴇɴɢᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴏᴏɴʏ ❞

( this one is somewhat of a long emotional rollercoaster, also gif is from one of my favorite shows - teen wolf )

SIRIUS AND MAGNOLIA wake up beside one another on the common room couch. After their emotional conversation with one another, Sirius fell asleep with his head on her shoulder.

She had her feet sat between his thighs with her feet under his thigh, not near to being on his lap. His arms were wrapped around her knees, hugging them to his chest as he laid his head on her shoulder. One of her arms was lying behind his head and the other on her lap as she laid her head on top of his, letting small snores escape both their lips.

"I was wondering where she was when I woke up," Harry said, coming beside Lily, James, Peter, and Regulus. Regulus pointedly looked between him and James - not believing Harry's whole appearance was all James with the only difference being Lily's green eyes and less super noticeable features.

It was bizarre to see them and then know that James and Lily were Harry's parents this whole time. And then seeing Magnolia, snoring beside his older brother - knowing Remus is her father, the resemblance looked just as bizarrely similar.

"Good morning, Harry" Lily greets him from beside James, and he returns it with a bright smile.

"Morning" He muttered before glancing at James, who was hiding his sudden excitement. Harry furrowed his eyebrows, nonchalantly looking between Lily and James with raised eyebrows.

"We should wake them up, breakfast is almost gonna start" Remus suggests, making them all nod in agreement as Peter decides to flick both their foreheads but neither sturred nor woke up.

"Good one, Wormtail" James mutters sarcastically, flicking back at the shorter boy's forehead.

"You act like I wasn't trying"

"Okay, shut up you dickheads - just shake them awake," Remus says as James leans forward to pull Sirius's hair.

"Don't touch my hair" Sirius mutters into Maggie's neck, making her furrow her eyebrows and stir.

"Of course, now he wakes up" Lily mutters with an eye roll as Magnolia stretches, pushing the groaning Sirius off her.

"Get off me, you slug!" She moans as he finally sits up his eyes opening.

"How long have you guys been standing there?" He asks, running a hand through his hair in exhaustion before looking at them all with squinted eyes.

"Not long - we all were wondering where you guys were" Sirius looked at Magnolia, who had some tear stains on her cheeks from crying last night.

Their conversation from last night was cut off short as they had a long pause of silence. Sirius tried convincing her that she wasn't a monster but she couldn't help but think otherwise. They ended up holding each other to mask their pain over each other's hardships. But in the end, Sirius was happy he talked to her because the Azkaban thing would've bugged him to death - and even though it was never mentioned, it gave him some relief by just talking to Magnolia and how she was doing.

"We both couldn't sleep and talked for a while last night," Sirius says, brushing it off as he gets up with a Gryffindor blanket setting his shoulders.

"Come on, sleeping beauty - get dressed and we'll go get breakfast," Harry tells Maggie as she groans, rubbing her face as he helps her off the couch.

"Sorry for leaving you" She mutters, leaning on him as they go up the stairs.

"I don't accept, I was so alone without you, darling"

"Oh poor you," She says with a small giggle, making him smile.

Once they're out of sight, two of the five of the teens sigh out loud.

"So, are they ever gonna find out that we know?"

"Yeah, I'll just need to figure out when to tell them," Remus says, scratching his chin in thought.

"Maybe we can just tell them during breakfast-"

"Yeah, in front of everybody - that's smart" Remus retorts back as Regulus rolls his eyes.

"I don't like how I'm currently younger than my son" James pouts with a mutter, shaking his head softly as Lily and Remus look at him confused. "If only he got that time-turner later..."

"That doesn't make any sense-"

"Who the fuck ate my chocolate?!" Magnolia screeches, making them all jump in fear. They hear a bunch of stomping as Magnolia comes down with her robes and uniform on beside Harry.

"Oh no," James mutters, making them snap to him.

"James, did you eat her chocolate?" Lily asks in a whisper, so Mags can't hear as she almost trips on the rug, going up to them.

"Maybe... Maybe not-"

"James, I know it was you!" She shouts, making him book it out of the common room with her close behind.

"Spare me, please! Someone help! MOONY!" James shouts as his and Maggie's yelling turns quieter as they start running farther and farther from the common room and the doors close behind their sprinting forms.

"Is Prongs getting hexed up in the arse?" Sirius asks, coming down in his robes and uniform - lazily tying his tie around his neck.

"Probably" Harry mutters with a laugh as Remus sighs. Regulus only lets out a laugh and Lily huffs.

"Is there anything we can do to stop her from probably hexing him?" Peter asks as Harry shrugs, stuffing his hands into his pockets with a snarky smirk.

"I've learned not to get into it with her when she's pissed... You'll never know what she'll do... Potions assignment 'accidentally' exploding? Maybe. Ass glued to your seat? Maybe. Making your nose bigger? Maybe. Throwing up slugs for an hour... Maybe. You'll never know when it's coming." They all look at him a little fearful for Prongs as his son merely shrugs.

"All she's doing now is scaring him, so be ready for her next move - it might not even be that big or noticeable."

"Damn, she likes revenge like you Moony," Sirius says with a laugh as Remus chuckles.

~~~

She didn't do anything other than hit him profusely over the top of his head before entering the Great Hall with some bickering between the two. Now they were sitting at the Gryffindor table with the insufferable Slytherins glaring at them as they walked past. But Magnolia nor James spared them a glance, only smirking lightly to themselves as they approached their table. They sat beside one another, waiting for the others as they came in not long later.

The six of them entered the Great Hall, alongside Marlene this time who was sulking with a headache - aching for coffee to go down her lungs. The others finally come, looking at James wearily to see if Magnolia has done anything yet... But she hasn't since Harry walked right next to Magnolia and kissed her before sitting down beside her.

"What happens if you put a werewolf on the moon?"

"Great question - probably the best-wondering question you've ever asked" Remus sarcastically states as Sirius throws a piece of bacon at him in response.

"Most likely explode and die because there's no oxygen on the moon," James says as Sirius scoffs and Peter secretly takes a piece of his biscuit.

"We never said we'd send him up there without a suit, you absolute monster" Sirius scowls as James mocks him, while Remus messes up his hair annoyed at the two he calls friends.

'Full moon tonight?' Maggie mouths to Remus, who sits across from her at the table. He nods, forcing a smile as she looks at him worriedly. She furrows her eyebrows before imagining she's writing things out on the table in thought.

"What are you thinking of?" Harry asks her from beside her as she begins tapping her finger on the table.

"I'm trying to remember what Severus taught me when we were in school"

~~~

"Read page 246 and then answer the questions on the parchment that was on your desk when you walked in" Minerva McGonagall declared, sitting back at her desk to continue her work with a quill.

"You already answered the questions?" Sirius asked the couple in front of him, leaning foward on his desk, noticing the two writing something else down in a notebook - the parchment assigned sitting in front of them, already completely done.

"From all those years of this class - I hope I already know the answers to these questions at this point," Magnolia replied, her eyes not leaving her notebook, writing a bunch of stuff that Sirius wasn't too interested in. He took one last look at the occupied couple and leaned across his table there - taking their parchment to copy off, making James grin happily so he could copy too.

Marlene scoffed with a pout, whispering 'Not fair, gimme!' at the two from behind them, beside Lily. Lily rolls her eyes at the two and looks back down to read the pages and answer the questions herself.

"Snape seriously taught you how to make it?" Harry asks, furrowing his eyebrows at the instructions that were written in her notebook.

"I practically begged him when my father left Hogwarts to be with Sirius and he could no longer have access to it."

"He almost gave up on me and said he'll make more - but I wanted to know how just in case, you know?" She says, looking at the instructions over and over to make sure.

"Yeah, of course," He whispers, looking up to see Remus sitting in front of them. He wasn't feeling well, he looked clearly in pain. Peter was scrambling to write down on both of their parchments as Remus whispered to him the answers to put down. It was seen that Remus had no strength to try and do anything other than lay his head on his desk. So Peter decided to do both their assignments - while Remus tried giving a few reminders every once in a while since Peter learned a little slower than others.

"Hey, Maggie?" James whispered from behind her, making her hum in response, slightly leaning back to hear him more. But she didn't take her eyes off the notebook until she let Harry have a full look at it.

"Just wanted to let you know... Last night - when you and Harry were at the library, Regulus and Lily sort of heard everything you said-"

"Wait, are you saying-"

"Yeah exactly what you're thinking - they know. They know everything from you being in the future, your Remus's daughter and Harry's me and Lily's and... that Sirius goes to Azkaban-"

"What?!" Magnolia whisper-yells, her eyes bulging as she turns around to face him. Harry's eyes widen - not daring to look back at them or the others behind him.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry -" James whispers, sliding back down in his seat. She looks at Sirius with wide eyes and lips pointed downwards as he doesn't realize she's looking at him and focuses on copying off their parchment in front of him.

"But-"

"Class dismissed everyone - If you're finished with your assignment, set it on my desk but if you're not, you have homework to give me straight tomorrow morning."

"Did he just say what I think he did?" Harry mutters nervously as Magnolia slowly nods, nervously twirling a piece of her hair around her pointer finger as she gets out of her seat.

The couple stays quiet as all the students collect their things from their desks. They eyed one another and made a signal to each other that they needed to talk in private. James watched them leave quickly as Sirius laughed at him, shaking his head.

"I couldn't keep it in, it was getting too sufferable!" James groans, collecting his things before trying to get out of his seat but sticking to his seat.

"What the-"

"Yeah but was that the right time at all?... No." Remus says with furrowed eyebrows, slinging his bag over his shoulder as James looks down at his lap confused.

"Guys, I can't get up."

"What are you talking about? Just get up" Marlene tells him, making him scoff and press his hands on his desk to help him up.

"Bloody hell, I'm literally stuck-"

"Like your ass is glued onto the seat?" Sirius asks, trying to move James's thigh off the chair but no progress happens and James stays put on the chair.

"Wait... Ass glued to the seat?" Peter asks, his lips slowly curling into a grin. They all look at him confused before they all break out into laughter except Marlene and James.

"Kinda getting fomo here guys" Marlene states, furrowing her eyebrows at the others as Sirius giggles in his shoes.

"Mags glued your ass to the seat!" He exclaims as James looks at him even more confused and shocked.

"Why would she do that?"

"Cause you ate her bloody chocolate!"

~~~

"Mr. Potter - I dismissed class fifteen minutes ago, why are you still here?" Minerva asks James, who is still sitting in his chair in boredom, finally happy that she finally noticed him sitting here for the past fifteen minutes.

"Well, you see - I've always found your room quite interesting. I mean those curtains -"

"Potter."

"Lupin glued my ass to my seat." He finally says with a sigh, making her raise an eyebrow and sigh before shaking her head.

"I don't get paid enough for this..."

~~~

"We really can't keep our mouths shut, can we?" Harry urgently asks as Magnolia and he were trying to figure out what to do now.

"Now that Lily knows - what if the future changes and they somehow have a girl instead of a boy?" She questions in wonder as they come to a stop, facing one another. Harry looks off to space and furrows his eyebrows.

"You said you didn't care about gender!" Harry quickly exclaims, crossing his arms over his chest by mentioning Magnolia's pansexuality. "So I think you'd still fall in love with my womanly charms just as much as you fell in love with my manly charms"

"Yeah, probably" She mutters before getting into thought and she starts growing anxious.

"I'm sorry" She lets out, not meeting his eyes with them looking straight at the ground. Harry looks at her confused and slowly raises his hand to push her hair out of her face, hooking it behind her ear.

"Woah, wait - Why are you sorry?" He asks, pulling her inside an empty random closet seeing as she was beginning to go into panic.

"This - everything! I should have made McGonagall give us a different house other than Gryffindor and we wouldn't easily encounter them so much - or even stay in an inn and come from time to time here. I could have lied better when it came to them questioning us! Or avoid them better when I was the one that said bloody yes to that fucking sleepover that started all of this And just the fact you didn't even want to go!" She shouted, tears beginning to run down her cheeks. He violently shook his head as she only ignored him, panicking herself as her breath was growing heavy.

"I was the one that got drunk and told them a bunch of stuff, Magnolia-"

"That's not the point, Harry! If I had just not been a huge baby and not had a fucking panic attack every time I saw them - Maybe - most likely - We wouldn't have had to deal with this all! I shouldn't have tried changing the past when I should have kept my bloody mouth shut! It's my fault!"

"No, stop Magnolia -"

"No please, stop! STOP!" She sobbed in his chest, trying to fight off his comforting pull against him.

"It's my fault! I'm the reason why that everything we're used to is gone now." She screeches, hitting his chest over and over as he never bothered to flinch to show his slight pain from her hitting.

She was angry, furious - there were so many words to describe what she was feeling all at once with herself. The painful realization had struck her hard and it felt like her heart was ripped out of her chest. If only she hadn't done the things she had done - maybe there would be a chance that they'd be back in their time now.

What James had said; " She still hasn't let go of the past, I think around this time - it's hitting her harder than ever before, and soon she'll understand that it's okay to let things go " was rocking back and forth in Harry's head. He wasn't expecting her to slowly realize these things in this aggressive way. It made him want to sob at how hurt she looked.

This wasn't the Magnolia Lupin he knew.

Even the times she was sobbing after seeing her father again not that long ago, she was suffering from memories flashing through her mind. The time she transformed into her Veela form and cried. Suffering the loss of Sirius, Remus, and Nymphadora during the war - this was so much different.

She looked weak. She looks like she's pleading to anyone who'd listen to give her the strength to let it all go. She was tired of thinking everything was going to be okay. She didn't want to continue with this mindset that this second choice is the only way to live... She looked disgusted with herself.

Even though there was so much force put on Harry - he never once broke. He wrapped his arms around her tightly, even though she was thrashing and cursing herself for being stupid. He held her down as she sobbed and sobbed and hit his chest as hard as she could to make him let go of her.

She hated herself and she didn't want him touching her because she felt like she didn't deserve a soft touch.

She felt like she didn't deserve him.

She felt like she didn't deserve the welcome and love from the marauders.

She feels disgusted with herself because she's giving all that she has and it still will never be enough.

And at this very moment, it's all dawning on her that she has to let it all go - even though it's far too late.

authors note !!!

not me tearing up by my own work